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A star is born – or tries.
The nation's capital has lined Pennsylvania Avenue with 51-star American flags as the city of Washington, DC, is gearing up for a state-building hearing this week.
The district mayor's office, Muriel Bowser, has deployed about 140 flags. It can be seen along Pennsylvania Avenue NW bordering the space separating the White House from the US Capitol.
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Flags fly at sunset with 51 stars instead of the usual 50 stars along Pennsylvania Avenue, as part of a demonstration in support of statehood for the District of Columbia.
(AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin)
The mayor's office organized a parade Monday morning in the famous street in the heart of the capital. Bowser and veterans of the military will march "to ask Congress to grant the right to vote and full representation to the 702,000 residents of DC, including 30,000 veterans," according to the Eventbrite page of the parade.
On Thursday, the House Oversight and Reform Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing, originally scheduled for July, on a bill to create a state for the District of Columbia. The bill aims to have the city "admitted to the Union on an equal footing with other states".
The bill provides for elections of two senators and a representative of the House at the district level. It states that all the territories of the district would be included in the declaration, with the exception of specific exclusions of federal buildings and monuments, such as the White House.
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The last plenary session of the House committee on a draft law on the creation of a district state was held in 1993.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
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